Tag Archives: Digital Camera

Following up on yesterday’s post, Judd Heape, Qualcomm, sees four stages of AI penetration in digital photography: Scene recognition (like landscape, portrait, night, …). This lets AI tune the camera to get a best fit. It is a very low degree of smartness, coupled with a very low degree of …

Well, digital cameras killed film cameras some 20 years ago (it took a decade for film camera to disappear but 20 years ago the trend was already clear…), now it is the turn of Computational Photography to kill, once and for all, the Digital camera market. Again, it will take …

This is not about a product, not even about an object: it is about what technology can enable each one of us. Kevin McAlee my be described as a passionate do-it-yourself technologist. He has been spending time in developing his own home-made robots and giving them a “soul” -aka writing …

I still remember my first film camera (I was really proud of having a camera!). It had an optical indicator that as I turned the focus ring on the lens showed a detailed area in the frame split in two that recomposed into a single image once the focus was …

The digital cameras embedded in smartphones have made incredible progresses, killing point and shoot cameras and now getting close to kill reflex cameras. The quality of the photos has improved thanks to electronics (better digital sensors and faster processing chip) and to software (computational photography). What has seen very little …

If you are interested in nature photography you have probably had some (bad) experience in taking photos of birds in flight (BIF for the cognoscenti) and you know how difficult it is to focus on them. Continuous focussing, available today in many cameras surely helps but only to a certain …

I love to look at the heavens and I got a few apps on my iPad that help me identify heavenly objects. Sometimes I try looking with a tele-lens on my digital camera  but pointing it to a specific planet or star is quite difficult. There are a number of …

I wrote a number of posts on computational photography because this is the future of photography, particularly for mass market photography (although computational photography is what is being used today in most scientific image capture, including the impressive image of the black hole we saw last year). There is also …

The number of photos taken everyday is mind-boggling. And, to tell the truth, no one knows exactly how many. The info I was able to gather on the web varies widely, from 1 trillion to 15 trillion photos taken in 2018, that means between 2.7 to 41 billion photos every …

Nature has evolved an impressive variety of eyes, not just in shape but also in characteristics. You may want to take a look at this wonderful article, from where I extracted the photos of a variety of eyes, to “see” what animals can “see”. I found it an amazing and …